Injury update

September 1, 2008

Though most Americans have today off to celebrate the last year's worth of labor, United's players were at RFK for a couple hours with their sights set on Wednesday night's Open Cup final. Everyone who is healthy played signifcant minutes against New York over the weekend - either in the first team's 0-0 draw on Saturday or in the reserve's 2-1 win on Sunday - so the team gathered for a couple of runs, a long stretch and training room treatment today.

A few injury updates out of the locker room...

Quavas Kirk suffered a mid-foot sprain in Sunday's reserve game and will be listed as 'out' on the injury report this week.

Luciano Emilio, who pulled himself out of Saturday's match just before halftime, has a slight groin strain and is listed as 'probable.'

Fellow Brazilian, Fred (hamstring strain), has been upgraded from 'out' to 'probable.'

And finally, Ben Olsen (ankle surgery), Francis Doe (foot infection) and Marcelo Gallardo (hernia surgery) - all listed as 'questionable' last week, have been upgraded to 'probable.' Gallardo got minutes on Saturday, Olsen played a half on Sunday and Doe played a bit on both Saturday and Sunday.

The team will train as they normally do tomorrow in advance of Wednesday's big game.

I really hope you're planning to make your way to RFK for the team's first trip to a cup final since 2004. Get your fan loyalty (i.e. discounted) tickets right here. Bring friends.